Azure Monitor - Alert Notification via Teams

Copper Contributor

Nov 11, 2021

Thanks for your reply BrunoGabrielli.

Essentially I've copied the given example payload (which is for a VM) and replaced the alertContext block with that of the Availability tests so now my payload looks like this:

{
  "schemaId": "azureMonitorCommonAlertSchema",
  "data": {
    "essentials": {
      "alertId": "/subscriptions/<subscription ID>/providers/Microsoft.AlertsManagement/alerts/b9569717-bc32-442f-add5-83a997729330",
      "alertRule": "WCUS-R2-Gen2",
      "severity": "Sev3",
      "signalType": "Metric",
      "monitorCondition": "Resolved",
      "monitoringService": "Platform",
      "alertTargetIDs": [
        "/subscriptions/<subscription ID>/resourcegroups/pipelinealertrg/providers/microsoft.compute/virtualmachines/wcus-r2-gen2"
      ],
      "configurationItems": [
        "wcus-r2-gen2"
      ],
      "originAlertId": "3f2d4487-b0fc-4125-8bd5-7ad17384221e_PipeLineAlertRG_microsoft.insights_metricAlerts_WCUS-R2-Gen2_-117781227",
      "firedDateTime": "2019-03-22T13:58:24.3713213Z",
      "resolvedDateTime": "2019-03-22T14:03:16.2246313Z",
      "description": "",
      "essentialsVersion": "1.0",
      "alertContextVersion": "1.0"
    },
	"alertContext": {
      "properties": null,
      "conditionType": "WebtestLocationAvailabilityCriteria",
      "condition": {
        "windowSize": "PT5M",
        "allOf": [
          {
            "metricName": "Failed Location",
            "metricNamespace": null,
            "operator": "GreaterThan",
            "threshold": "2",
            "timeAggregation": "Sum",
            "dimensions": [],
            "metricValue": 5,
            "webTestName": "myAvailabilityTest-myApplication"
          }
        ],
        "windowStartTime": "2019-03-22T13:40:03.064Z",
        "windowEndTime": "2019-03-22T13:45:03.064Z"
      }
    }
  }
}

I guess at the time of writing this tutorial, there was a "Post a message (V3) (Preview)" Teams task but as I can't find that, I'm using the "Post message in a chat or channel" with (for a test) just a couple of Dynamic Content fields, severity and description:

My alert ARM:

{
  "name": "[concat(variables('webAppName'), ' Ping Alert')]",
  "type": "Microsoft.Insights/metricAlerts",
  "apiVersion": "2018-03-01",
  "location": "global",
  "dependsOn": [
    ...
  ],
  "tags": {
    ...
  },
  "properties": {
    "description": "[concat('The ', variables('webAppName'), ' App Service appears to be unavailable')]",
    "severity": 0,
    "enabled": true,
    "scopes": [
      "[resourceId('Microsoft.Insights/webtests', variables('pingTestName'))]",
      "[resourceId('Microsoft.Insights/components', variables('appInsightsName'))]"
    ],
    "evaluationFrequency": "[parameters('monitorEvaluationFrequency')]",
    "windowSize": "[parameters('monitorWindowSize')]",
    "criteria": {
      "odata.type": "Microsoft.Azure.Monitor.WebtestLocationAvailabilityCriteria",
      "webTestId": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Insights/webtests', variables('pingTestName'))]",
      "componentId": "[resourceId('Microsoft.Insights/components', variables('appInsightsName'))]",
      "failedLocationCount": 2
    },
    "actions": [
      {
        "actionGroupId": "[parameters('monitorActionGroups_APaP_Developers_externalId')]"
      }
    ]
  }
}

However, with the above test example I'm not getting any data in the Teams channel:

This drives me nuts and also the idea of having to create multiple payloads for different alert types is a little bit discouraging.

Also, when using conditions with that Switch and the monitoringService Platform, well in my case I use all three types of metric alerts (Static threshold, Dynamic threshold and Availability tests) so I wonder how that can be handled.

I know I'm jumping ahead a little, at the moment I can't even get the Availability tests right... 😄 😞

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